19 Jun
2007
19 Jun
'07
11:04 a.m.
On Jun 19, 2007, at 1:39 PM, woodelf wrote:
Eeeeeek! Well it seems to be mostly TTL...I think it's more a
matter of effort than component cost.
Weirdo. ;)
Something tells me a MASSBUS-interfaced peripheral would be of
somewhat limited appeal. ;) I've thought of doing something like
that myself, but then that "spare time" problem crops up. It's
maddening.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
On Jun 19,
2007, at 10:48 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
So how much $$ do you expect parts for such a beast would be? Every once in a while, a fit overcomes me and I
contemplate what it
would take to re-implement the KS20 with a stack of 2901s and a pile
of fast SRAM. Fortunately, the madness passes before I can do much
more than think about it.
*snicker* Yes that would be fun. But man...there are
quite a
few really big boards in that machine. That would take some doing! There seem
to have been several of those FPGA projects, but they
keep dying. I guess people don't have a clear idea of the level
of complexity.
So build a RISC flavor of a 9/18/36/72 bit machine. :) Indeed it
would. I've never booted mine. :-( Someday I will
find a TU45.
Perhaps that would be a better project to emulate.
Spare Time Gizmos makes TU-58 Emulator. You might ask them to
emulate a tape drive too.